Ultrasound Guided Regional Anesthesia for Acute Injury in Low Resource Settings

Salmon, Margaret, M.D.

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Pain Management; Acute Injuries

Treatments: Procedure: ultrasound guided regional nerve block

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02084225

NB0001

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine feasibility, perceived utility and sustainability of training local providers in ultrasound guided regional anesthesia for acute pain management in a limited-resource conflict setting.

Full description

To the investigators knowledge, this is the first study of feasibility, perceived utility and sustainability of USRA as a pain management tool in a low-resource conflict setting and is one of the only large studies to date to assess USRA by local providers for emergent pain relief due to injury in patients presenting to an acute care center.

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• participants were chosen by hospital administration

Exclusion criteria

• only chosen participants were included

Trial design

60 participants in 1 patient group

Course participants

Description:

Physicians, nurses and orthopedic officers who staff the emergency intake and orthopedic procedure area of HEAL hospital, Goma DRC, Black Lion Hospital, Addis Ababa and Kindu General Hospital in Kindu DRC. These participants recorded their nerve block intervention over one year for pain management and assessed patient pain level after 10 cc lidocaine.

Treatment:

Procedure: ultrasound guided regional nerve block